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The best event marketing mobile and social media apps almost always work as planned in the field. Yet, on occasion, challenges occur when there is a difference between what an interactive piece is designed to do and how it actually performs in the field. Factors like weather,…

The whole idea of a loyalty program is to encourage and reward customers for doing business with you. The easier you make it for them to earn rewards and the more desirable those rewards are, the more likely a customer will…

SMDigital Partners specializes in Digital Media Marketing for companies that want to reach new customers through Search Engine Marketing.

Why Advertising Online is Important

"A lot of digital media across all of these different channels whether it’s display, search, etc., has been very much about performance advertising to date," he said. "And brand marketing, measured in terms…

Throw your CRM away. A CRM often becomes too much like a multitasking Swiss Army knife, when what you need to really sell more cars is something simple and powerful.

As CRM vendors bolt on different applications, the proverbial Swiss Army Knife philosophy emerges. Is it practical for cutting a steak? Or is it a 12-in-one tool with pliers, toothpicks, tweezers, and multiple blades – something complicated and bulky and not as simple as a serrated steak knife?

The days of going to a dealership to "talk" about cars are entering a dinosaur phase. Car manufacturers are successfully using Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook and Pinterest to "reach" car buyers. I reached out and talked to Volkswagen…

There are those who think that Facebook and Twitter are the only relevant social networks when it comes to business. There are those who go so far as saying that Facebook is all that you need. In truth, both may be right, but that’s strictly from a social perspective. Once you throw search into the equation, Google+, Pinterest,…

There is a good chance that you are reading this because you were given the link by your internet manager or marketing manager. That's a really good sign - it means that you have someone on staff who is keeping up with the cutting edge automotive digital marketing…

There are always going to be those who are real experts offering real products or services with proven strategies and the ability to make changes to their techniques as the market and industries change. There are also always going to be those who put on the uniform, slide on the…

The penetration of hybrid and plug-in cars is growing, but ever so slightly. The primary driver today is as much related to the CAFÉ standards causing manufacturers to step forward with these new products, as it is related to pure consumer interest and demand. With there now being over forty hybrid-related offerings and another dozen plug-in vehicles, the overall volume is growing. According to…

http://konig.co/autocapturehttp://j.mp/autoclosesapp Are you a hunter or farmer For so many years, we have struggled as an industry when it comes to follow up. Then, companies like Clients for Life and came along and started sending our follow up letters for us. All we had to do was sign it and mail it. This gave us more time to focus on working with the customers who were on the…

Dealerships are typically slow to embrace technology. In some cases, it’s for budgetary reasons and for others it’s out of a lack of a sense of need. A recent article in WardsAuto.com reinforced the need for dealerships to…

During a discussion with a potential client, something came up that surprised me. It shouldn’t have considering the types of information that are floating around the internet and being spread by “gurus,” but it did.

“I post pictures to Facebook and links to Twitter,” she told me.

That was the sum of their strategy. In a way it sort of made sense – rather, I…

I cut my teeth selling at an early age selling door to door. From delivering newspapers to Fuller Brush to Cash is Best, for which Ted Turner was a fugitive from the US holding offshore on his yacht in international waters for purporting a…

As our industry looks to the future, many experts claim the next logical step from online marketing is online sales: that is, completing the car sales process, or as much of it as possible, online. According to an IBM study last year, 21% of new car buyers never test drove a car before purchasing it, that percentage is likely to grow. In 2012, CNW Research stated that only 13% of millennials say a new vehicle ranks as the number one product projecting enviable status. This utilitarian…

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